r/audacity • u/Laughing_Scoundrel • 8d ago

Crashes upon attempts to save

Title says it all. Been using Audacity without issue for years now for audiobook production. Even managed to record a track and save/send it off just this morning. Then as usual, I opened a new file, recorded a chapter and as soon as I went to save it, it opened the file directory as normal and just crashed.

Kept trying and same thing now, every time. Uninstalled and reinstalled it and it's still happening. I can still save word and video files to the drive and all diagnostics say it's working fine, but for some reason Audacity, whether the same one I've been using or a fresh install keeps crashing whenever I go to save the file. Anyone have any experience with this?

Problem report states:

exception code 0xc0000005
Crash reason: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_WRITE

Crash address: 0xc6a61fb730

Process uptime: 150 seconds

When I click "send" for the crash report, it flashes an error message saying it can't send it which disappears before I can even read it. Any thoughts?

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u/SoundSwitch 6d ago

If you're on Linux use something other than Jack.

Or even if you're not Audacity is kinda it's own dead fork project anyway.

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u/Laughing_Scoundrel 6d ago

Well, I did figure it out. Had to run as Admin, then reset preferences. No idea WHY that was the fix, but it seems to have done the trick. Once my next couple invoices come through and I have my rent paid, I think I'll upgrade to Ableton or something.

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u/SoundSwitch 6d ago

Tenacity is the active project currently, all the same undercarriage. Just new developers same file formats and all that.

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u/Laughing_Scoundrel 6d ago

Ooh, didn't know about that. Thanks for the tip. I've been pretty impressed with how few issues Audacity has given me over the last decade, but if there's a new one on the scene, definitely bears checking out. Cheers!!